The TRADE is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Leaders in Trading awards, with the recipients honoured at a ceremony held last night at The Savoy, London.
Nearly 300 industry leaders joined The TRADE in a sold-out room to recognise the year’s leading individuals and firms within the industry, with 36 awards handed out across buy-side, editors’ choice, algorithmic trading, EMS and fintech categories.
Input for the coveted Buy-Side awards, awarded in partnership with SIX Swiss Exchange, was opened to the industry after a lengthy period of industry consultation prior. This year, the highly anticipated award for Trader of the Year went to Grainne O’Connor of Fidelity International.
UBS Asset Management, headed by Stuart Lawrence, took home the award for Trading Desk of the Year. Meanwhile, Liontrust and Ninety One received the awards for Multi-Asset Trading Desk of the Year and Fixed Income Trading Desk of the Year, respectively.
In another individual award recognition, Simon Steward of Capital Group, was honoured with the Buy-Side Market Structure Expert of the Year award.
This year’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement award for the buy-side was handed to Baring Asset Management’s Louisa Paul, in recognition of her contributions to the industry, with more than 20 years spent with the asset manager.
The Editors’ Choice categories are always highly competitive, and this year proved no exception. Across the 14 awards, this year’s winners – as judged by The TRADE’s editorial panel – were all worthy given their achievements over the last year.
In the trading venues arena, Aquis Exchange, Cboe BIDS Europe, LedgerEdge and LSEG (Refinitiv FXall) each took home Oustanding Trading Venue awards, while Cboe Global was crowned overall Outstanding Exchange Group. big xyt claimed the crown for Outstanding Market Data Provider, and elsewhere, Instinet collected the Outstanding Trading Technology Provider award.
This year, Appital was crowned FinTech of the Year, in the category supported by Instinet.
Within the Algorithmic Trading & EMS categories – which are based on the results of The TRADE’s annual surveys – several firms took home multiple awards. Bernstein won two honours from the algorithmic trading category: Best Trading Performance and Best Price Improvement Capabilities. Berenberg also received two awards in the algorithmic trading category, Best Customer Support and Consulting, alongside Best Client Service. Another double winner within the algorithmic trading category was BNP Paribas Exane, which was honoured with the Best Large-Cap Provider and Best User Experience awards. Meanwhile in the EMS category, Virtu Triton received two awards; Best Market Access and Best Platform Reliability.
Prior to the Leaders in Trading awards dinner, The TRADE also recognised this year’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution, 20 of the buy-side’s up and coming talents of the future. The ceremony for the Rising Stars marked the eighth annual event, with many of the previous year’s winners now earning nods within the Leaders in Trading categories.
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners:
EMS Awards | Winner |
Best Market Access | Virtu Triton |
Best Platform Reliability | Virtu Triton |
Best Large-Cap Provider | TS Imagine |
Overall APAC | TORA |
Overall Europe | FlexTrade |
Overall North America | Neovest |
Algorithmic Trading Awards | Winner |
Best Trading Performance | Bernstein |
Best Access to Market | Redburn |
Best Price Improvement Capabilities | Bernstein |
Best Customer Support and Consulting | Berenberg |
Best Large-Cap Provider | BNP Paribas Exane |
Best Provider – Multi-User Clients | JP Morgan |
Best User Experience | BNP Paribas Exane |
Best Client Service | Berenberg |
Editors’ Choice Awards | Winner |
Outstanding Exchange Group | Cboe Global Markets |
Outstanding Equities Trading Venue | Aquis Exchange |
Outstanding Dark Trading Venue | Cboe BIDS Europe |
Outstanding Fixed Income Trading Venue | LedgerEdge |
Outstanding FX Trading Venue | LSEG (Refinitiv FXall) |
Outstanding Derivatives Exchange Group | ICE |
Outstanding Alternative Liquidity Provider | Flow Traders |
Outstanding Post-Trade Services Provider | Euronext |
Outstanding Market Data Provider | big xyt |
Outstanding Trading Technology Provider | Instinet |
Best Challenger Exchange | FTX |
Outstanding Innovation in Fixed Income | BondCliQ |
Best Electronic Trading Initiative | Liquidnet Primary Markets |
Digital Asset Player to Watch | Matrixport |
FinTech of the Year | Appital |
Buy-side Awards | Winner |
Trader of the Year | Grainne O’Connor, Fidelity International |
Trading Desk of the Year | UBS Asset Management, Stuart Lawrence |
Multi-Asset Trading Desk of the Year | Liontrust |
Fixed Income Trading Desk of the Year | Ninety One |
Buy-Side Market Strcture Expert of the Year | Simon Steward, Capital Group |
Lifetime Achievement | Louisa Paul |
Industry Person of the Year | Robert Barnes |